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Show HN: Hika – A AI search engine that explores knowledge from multiple angles
I built Hika during GAP years, focusing on a different approach to AI search. Key features:

* Paragraph segmentation for deep dives into specific topics
* Visual knowledge graphs for concept exploration
* Interactive follow-up questions
* Professional knowledge source integration
* Free to use

We've been operating for several months with positive user feedback. Built with friends over the past year, focusing on thoughtful exploration rather than just quick answers.
Try it out: https://hika.fyi/
Looking for feedback on our approach to AI-assisted knowledge discovery. Currently bootstrapped and iterating based on user needs.
Did you notice a difference in performance after binarization? Do you have a way to measure performance?
Andrew Ng's courses tend to be widely recommended, including by someone I know who went from physics to ML.

This was pre-gpt-3.5 release. It's classical ML.
Thanks a lot! There's a very reasonable chance is is anybox! (The app I was thinking about wasn't self hosted, sorry about the confusion.) I'll check archive.org to see what it looked like a few months/year ago. (The "clean" and simple name along with the landing page style is definitely similar.)
How to parent/be a parent. I don’t have much choice in the matter, as my firstborn is coming this spring ^_^
I think it was the 1970's when I first heard of the "remove power, wait a good while, try again" strategy.

The subject was a cheap little black & white TV set that my folks had. Dad was an amateur radio operator, who mostly built his own equipment. He could have dissembled it, traced circuits, and calculated the wait time if he'd cared to.
The nostalgia based belief that "things were better before" is generally not supported by the facts. Cars in the past were much less reliable than they are today. This goes for most consumer products. That doesn't mean there aren't problems today that should be addressed, but the golden times of the past are largely imaginary.
Blocking malvertisements is a matter of safety, I personally find the privacy aspect secondary to that.
Will it be called the piss+ or the piss-pro?
> I personally never use rebase

Probably a lot of that is because it is painful. When it becomes a no-op, suddenly a lot of things become easy to do.

Do you ever want to go back and edit a previous unpublished commit? Yes fixups exist, but that’s a band aid over the fact that editing a previous one is annoying and hard.

Do you ever want to maintain a linear chain of branches? Branch A needs to be merged before Branch B needs to be merged before Branch C. It’s a massive pain with git, especially if you need to change Branch A. It’s a no-op in jj.

There are a ton of straightforward and useful workflows in git that are just completely impractical.
One of the skills I already have is the ability to work with difficult people or take on projects that need to be rescued and turn them around. That has been a valuable skill and has allowed me to develop a brand around it.

However, that doesn't mean that I enjoy working with difficult people or cleaning up other people's messes. I find those people just as off-putting as everyone else; I just happen to be better at masking it. And I find cleaning up messes just as tedious and challenging as everyone else; I just happen to be able to do it anyway.

So I think one of the skills I want to better develop in 2025 is being able to strike a better balance between the things I'm recognized for being good at and the things I actually enjoy doing.

(And if anyone has tips for how to make use of this skill set in a way that's genuinely fulfilling rather than draining, I'm all ears!)
I am retiring from tech after 20 years and embarking on a new career which requires intensive schooling. As a high school and college drop out, I will need to learn how to study again, and want to be as efficient as possible so that I may still spend ample time with my family. Any tips greatly appreciated!
Sure code can be cool for the same reason hip-hop is more than just the meaning of the words.

The typing is the rhyme scheme. The algorithm is the rhythm.
Yup, he embraced Christianity, that's why I wrote "heritage".
I'm not sure Extroversion/Introversion is related to prosocial behavior in any direct way. Prosocial always refers to cooperation, fairness, and acting on behalf of society as a whole. IOW prosocial is the opposite of self-interested, not the opposite of shy.

We know that psychopathic, anti-social people (ie the dark triad types) score very high on extroversion. They direct their energy outwards to manipulate others - the polar opposite of "prosocial".

Shy introverted people low on the extroversion scale also demonstrate lower prosocial behavior on average, mostly through avoidance.

The most introverted and the most extroverted people are thus equally likely to engage in anti-social behavior (though qualitatively different, both ends of the spectrum are looking out for #1)
DeepSeek-V3-Base
Maybe someone could recommend them to take in a lot of immigrants? That's what we did in Europe.
I was a git power user. I am comfortable with and understand the index, stash, rebases, the reflog, and all the rest. I have written a git implementation.

I have converted to jj and will never go back. It is simpler and more powerful.
This video has now taught me what topology is.
It's hard to take seriously an argument that recycles the tired trifecta of tropes "tulips, beanie babies and drug dealers".

I don't know if bitcoin will eventually become a low level store of value, or if the red hats now running US government will use it to reduce the nation's indebtedness, or if it will gradually fade away as people lose interest, or if it will crash and burn over a weekend.

But I am quite certain that the current system of government currencies, sanctions, repression and surveillance is unsustainable in the long run. One look at the stupendously large debt that can never be repaid should make it obvious that the current state cannot continue forever.

Nobody knows how long the long run is, but the fiat system has been flashing signals of stress and potential fracture for at least twenty years. Maybe governments and central banks can keep papering over its fault lines for another decade. But when a thing cannot continue forever, at some point it will stop.

Is bitcoin the replacement for the base layer? Or is it at least a way to preserve some wealth, outside the increasingly rickety nation-state-fiat system? Some mainstream finance leaders who manage trillions and are far smarter and better connected that I am, seem to think so.

I don't know, and you don't know, but there's more than enough evidence that there's something real here. It can't be easily dismissed as just beanie babies, tulips and drug dealers.
Polar Bear! He was a Bichon Poodle mix and his tail hadn’t grown in yet so he looked exactly like one of the little polar bears from the Coca Cola commercials
Housing being an asset class will tank births everywhere.
Ask HN: How far did you get with your 2024 goals?
Looking at my own goals for this year I wrote in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38782613,

> I am thinking to go through as many of Andrew Ng's deep learning courses as I can. With AI developing at such a fast rate, it would be beneficial to know how it works underneath.

I ended up doing the entire Deep Learning Specialization and thoroughly enjoyed it. The courses gave me a good idea about AI fundamentals. The disadvantage is that since they're a few years old (pre-ChatGPT), the courses are already behind. I saw they have separate courses going into LLMs and such which might be worth looking into.

> I'm thinking to go through a raytracing course and some basic VFX courses on Blender. Possibly something about storytelling as well.

Sadly I didn't end up doing raytracing or VFX courses :( Instead I took up Unreal Engine and iOS dev, though I might be able to do at least one of those this year. For storytelling I only managed to read a few books on good writing. Haven't written anything on my own yet. I could possibly create a blog to test out my writing skills there.
entrepreneurship

To leave the rat race.
> I don't use Snap on my Ubuntu Desktop systems because I don't like apps secretly updating without my awareness

https://snapcraft.io/docs/managing-updates#p-32248-pause-or-...
This is what he’s choosing to do on Christmas Eve?
Here's an interesting BBC radio program [0] from 1978 on Ramsey. I came across this years ago and felt inspired to go into research. Of course, this program is a bit out of date and doesn't touch on his pragmatist turn much at all!

[0] https://sms.csx.cam.ac.uk/media/20145
Why should someone bother working full time for you if working full time for you won't make ends meet?

If the workload is so low why don't you just do the work yourself?
In the beginning of the day, don’t look at phone or computer. Avoid news especially, and instead write thoughts, draw something, work on a song, make something, anything. Don’t let day get sucked away with things that can’t be controlled.

Excercise every day with “scientific 7 minute workout”. Also 20–40 minute walks or 100 basketball jump-shots.

Draw daily, even a 5 minute drawing.

Write daily, even for 5 minutes.

Publish first original song, publish first EP. Learn a new song or practice one or two from existing set. Keep learning piano by learning songs you like: https://hypertexthero.com/piano/

Write postcards to people.

Set up a weekly “office hours” livestream to help people with design or technical computer issues.
Things like the condition flags, or GPU execution flags, or other 'implicit' flags are when assembly is needed.

Otherwise, intrinsics are sufficient. And with wavefront voting / ballot instructions (and intrinsics) being so readily available on modern GPUs, there's very little reason to go to those assembly level / machine code flags or registers.

Similarly, back when ccmov instructions weren't reliably output by compilers, you'd probably want raw assembly. But today I think it's safe to rely upon the optimizers.
Effective multiple team management. Keeping multiple teams of developers effective, motivated, and pointed in the right direction in a deadline oriented project (enterprise consulting) is almost impossibly hard. Way harder than any technical skill I’ve ever encountered.
Sounds like the Learning How To Learn course on Coursera was made for you. Good luck on your new pursuit!
Workers won't accept less than $81,000 for a new role
Humans vs. Ants: The Maze [video]
Learning Rust.

Learning how to draw.
The story is enjoyable, but like most such tales is amounts to building a string of deadly obstacles for the protagonist and then giving him just enough to survive each one. (FWIW the least realistic step was the ship turning around to get him, because spaceships typically don't carry any extra fuel. But in general there were too many resources lying around for him to use, especially the unattended lift vehicle. The plutonium core and the potatoes were a nice touch, though.)
* I want to learn how to make a game from beginning to end.

* Math. Got two books to refresh my skills.

* Improve my parenting.

* Get back to sxratchin (turntables) and making beats.

* Put my work out.
I don't disagree with you on the basic premise, but I'm pretty sure that the person you're replying to is a religious adult who has their shit together, and is probably not going to a church group that meets in a van down by the river, and practices "Steveism" or whatever.

For all of my problems with religion, churches are a good way for religious people to make friends and establish a social circle. It's one of the few Third Places left in our society.
I want to learn how to properly build a habit/routine that isn't dopamine driven. I have ADHD and I recently realized, even as I'm pushing 50 years old, that all of my hobbies, habits, and "likes" have been dopamine driven. I need to learn how to exclude the reward of a dopamine hit as the reason for doing something. Resources welcome.
Learning to forgive and let go of resentment
Even then, brokers just show a percent loss of -100%. Our buddy would never see the cool infinity symbol.

It’s too bad they aren’t a fan of dollar cost averaging into broad index funds, I think their older self would thank them.
Mental fortitude and strength.

As I enter mid life I’m finding a lot of things (mentally) challenging. I’m hoping to find peace and mental strength to stay the course and enjoy the life I have built. Worry less, appreciate more, and generally just be happy.

How to skill up in this area? I’m honestly not sure, but starting with reading.
My goal is a non goal. Try to live in the present, enjoy leisure time, and stop stressing about always having to up-skill myself. As I near my 50s, I realise life is too short to always be working. It’s okay to take a break and just enjoy stuff guilt free.

Having said that I have allowed myself one time intensive hobby - to learn Japanese. I’ve memorised around 1000 kanji and my grammar is decent. My goal is to pass the N4 or N3 next year.
What software stack you use for training?
Oddly enough, for 2025 I would say writing.

I would normally think that with the rise of LLMs, writing would be come obsolete. Interestingly though, I think LLMs make good writing more valuable and at the same time more rare.
Discipline all day. My life is rarely the reason for me not practicing the other skills I want to develop. Other than that I want to try out some pixel art, write more stories, and maybe some more pickup volleyball.
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but it sounds like you should look into stoic philosophy. I think it is overly hyped, and actually caused me some damage when I applied it too much, for too long, but definitely one of several worthwhile perspectives to have deeply internalized.
South Korea spent $200 billion over 10+ years to try to get young people to have more babies while the reasons for the low birth rate (housing costs, etc.) remain unaddressed.

Sounds like something the USA would do. Hilarious. What a waste of money lol. They could have easily fixed their housing crisis and ensured a better standard of living for young people.
1. Your first one is also on my list.

2. I have written technical blogs and it is very rewarding when you see your article ranking at the top of Google, and people sharing it because it is genuinely useful.

I may have some advice here.

If you've never had a blog, you'll be surprised how easily you can rank in search engines and get visitors. Technical blogs that haven't been tainted by monetization aren't as many as you'd think. You probably see many of them here on HN, but in Google most websites fight to stay on top for major keywords to make money.

Furthermore, many experts don't write. You'll be amazed when you start seeing impressions in Google Search Console (their dashboard for search activity).

I highly recommend:
- Setup the site quick, in an imperfect state
- Post a few articles in an imperfect state
- Install Google Search Console

Then follow the data in Search Console - you'll see which keywords and pages are getting traction. From there, keep posting what you think would be helpful for people like you.
Absolutely!

Here is a graph showing the difference. [^1]

Known ID is arXiv ID that is in the vector database, Unknown IDs need the metadata to be fetched via API. Text is embedded via the model's API.

FLAT and IVF_FLAT are different indexes used for the search. [^2]

[1]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mitanshu7/dumpyard/refs/he...

[2]: https://zilliz.com/learn/how-to-pick-a-vector-index-in-milvu...
Nix, nix nix nix nix nix and nix.

Also, delegation.

More health

More friendship
I use this same (or similar) skill to solve the unsolvable problems by listening to a customers needs, which usually somebody hasn't done by the time they get to me, and then work on fulfilling that need in a way the customer never would have expected. It's very rewarding and turns a negative interaction into a positive one. It's customer service 101 type stuff, but when you get the technical side involved, and you're competent, you become more than a punching bag and become the solution. It's so fun.
I've seen the exact same problem on my mother's Mac and it's making her crazy. Haven't found a corresponding bug report, but it's sort of reassuring she's not alone with that annoying bug
You kid, but I foresee a future where stagnant countries fight over the immigrants from the last few countries that are reproducing. This is not just a problem in Korea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate

Blue on the map indicates negative fertility rates. The economic systems we have will be destroyed by not having new entrants to the ponzi for the old to retire on. We will realize that expecting the economic growth forever we are used to without population growth forever is folly.

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-bri...
EKG interpretation - I doubt I'll get around to ultrasound and CT in 2025, they're a good bit more complicated.

I also recently got a Quest 3, so hoping to learn some basic modeling and rigging, I want to make a VR medical clinic.
I keep hearing about people building entire programs with Claude, etc and I haven’t figured that out yet. So far I use and like copilot, etc but it’s just a slight improvement, nothing huge. I’d like to figure out what I’m missing.

Also, professional development. I think I’ve never learned to sell myself.
Mostly non fiction

The Vortex by carney and miklian
Flying Blind by Peter Robison
The Maniac by Benjamin Labatut
UALink Consortium Led by AMD and Intel Poised to Compete with Nvidia's NVLink
Computer Science. After transitioning from Mechanical Engineer, and 5 years of being a "Software Engineer", I want to understand more how computers, operating systems, network, etc. work
Sleep, making quite some progress and it shows. I want to be even better.

Dev-wise: python and SQL. I have some skill in both but my new job requires it.

non-technical: marketing. My new job will be a good opportunity for it.

Perhaps also leetcode, but only if I can scooch that in.

Creative skill: starting any side project really.
Hey! Not sure if you're looking for recommendations, but Andrew Ng's original coursera course for Machine Learning is what you're looking for. I took the course back in 2015 but it's timeless, and gives you the algo and maths foundations you're looking for.
IMO "Increase purchases through Alexa’s voice interface" is pretty grandiose at the scale of Alexa, given that it's a huge network of devices and services powered entirely by voice.
Those are great skills. Would another course of action work for you ? For example selecting projects that bring more money, so as to spend less time on those boring projects (saved time could be used on things you enjoy then)
I would recommend you read Tiny Habits by Dr BJ Fogg. A lot of people recommend Atomic Habits but I will go against the grain and say I don't think Atomic Habits is a good book and Tiny Habits is a much better read.
Digging into the Ultra Accelerator Link UALink Consortium
And if you have an nvidia card and want to use cuda, Bazzite offers the same experience as Kinoite, but with nvidia drivers preinstalled out of the box.

A cuda dev environment is a 'toolbox create' away
Ossuaries and the Burials of Jesus and James
Learn Rust (for real this year). Increase my lifting PRs. Paint 40k models well. Honestly just get healthier. I've been lacking in 2024. Take up bow hunting because guns are too loud and if you ask me a bit gauche.
They also fired a whole bunch of software engineers (including everyone working on Servo), and then massively boosted their executives' salaries, so that was certainly something.
I spend so much time rushing past moments, trying almost frantically to get through them by applying rules of thumb and not wasting attention. Of course if you do that too little you get stuck in the mud. But too much of it is a form of self-defeating panic. In survival mode you have to rush, eat things you normally wouldn't, put aside any non critical detail. But those details pile up when you stay in that mode for year after year. So my goal is to learn to apply my full attention to the details, and to work hard on picking the right ones.

Factorio teaches this. You work on some tiny little thing, like getting a belt to balance properly, and move on to the next. By iterating that you can raise up this great machine, like pointillist art. Mark Andreessen claims that is Elon's secret sauce. I'm not so much hoping to accelerate inter planetary diaspora as I am to figure out how to keep my shoes from coming untied. I'm considering making one small step for man and ordering those elastic shoe laces, and solve a problem that I've been faffing around on since about age four. And then repeating that.
DNS-level blocking is more or less what Chrome's more limited API allows you to do. Full-fat adblockers can do a lot more.
It saves the inputs and outputs of the function, not the internal state, so most of what you asked isn't directly relevant. We do have async support coming soon though.

That being said, real time video processing is probably not a use case that we shine on. We'd be really good for managing everything around that, but not the actual video.
“Grandiose”? Stretching, sure, but for a time-bound objective, oh please no.

What leading indicators would suggest that you’re making real progress towards that goal? Those would be key results, more granular than that objective. And how might you bring them about? That they inspire solution ideas is the point really.
> the part I need to do feels too big too start without a full weekend of available time.

Parkinson's Law!
That's really encouraging, I might start a blog as well.
I have always called them 0.1x devs. Worked with several exactly as the describe. They provide negative value.
Isn't it fulfilling already because you get things done where others may fail? Also how do you do it? I'd love any tip you may have.
Liveview Native and swiftui is on my wish list
Productive immigrants, not those who you would pay to go home (as Sweden is doing). Economic drag would not help the situation.

Sweden to pay immigrants $34,000 for voluntary return home - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41549199 - Sep 2024 (9 comments)

Sweden will offer migrants $34k to go home - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41548399 - Sep 2024 (214 comments)

Sweden to pay refugees up to 341,00 USD to return - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41541481 - Sep 2024 (9 comments)
People are not having kids because they don't want kids. This is a global trend, in places of all levels of housing affordability.
Sales, sales, sales. I've been in tech so long but as a founder this is where I need to really focus. ABC for me all the way in 2025.
My bad the ordinal data type class is Enum not Ord!
Xockets to assert patents against Azure Boost DPUs, after use of Nvidia chips
Well, how do you explain the coming of consciousness into being whereas before there was none? Souls? That's equally imebecillic.
Merry Christmas. Do you have a link to the Andreessen quote?
From what I've read the discrimination women face in their careers is a huge contributor to the problem... Which was not discussed at all.
I’ve been using the TS3+ for many, many years now. Not a single issue.
I’m old enough to remember when you couldn’t just buy one share (you had to by a “lot” of 100), and when I actually received a paper stock certificate that I had to sign and mail to my broker. Rubes will try to beat the market and one in 1000 will succeed. Ignore them and follow the basics. I’ve been investing since the 80s and all my peers that did the boring thing are retiring comfortably.
It’s not just Jewish people; it’s anyone who doesn’t want to cook, and Chinese restaurants are historically the only thing open.